| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 352 pages) : maps |
| Contents |
The origins and creation of the Delta Ministry -- External relations, internal policy, 1964-1965 -- Hattiesburg, 1964-1967 -- McComb, 1964-1966 -- Greenville and the Delta, 1964-1966 -- Under investigation -- Freedom City -- Changing focus, 1967-1971 -- Internal dissension and crisis -- Winding down -- Conclusion |
| Summary |
The National Council of Churches established the Delta Ministry in 1964 to further the cause of civil rights in Mississippi--the southern state with the largest black population proportionately and with the stiffest level of white resistance. At its height the Ministry, which was headquartered in Greenville, had the largest field staff of any civil rights organization in the South. Active through the mid-1970s, the Ministry outlasted SNCC, CORE, and the SCLC in Mississippi, helping to fill the vacuums when these organizations fell apart or refocused their energies. This first book-length study of the Delta Ministry tells how the organization conducted literacy, citizenship, and vocational training, fostering the growth of Head Start and community-based health care and in widening the distribution of free surplus federal food and food stamps. Divine Agitators looks at many inadequately studied events across a time span that extends beyond the widely accepted end dates of the civil rights movement. It offers new insights, at the most local levels of the movement, into conflict within and between civil rights groups, the increasing subtlety of white resistance, the disengagement of the federal government, and the rise of Black Power |
| Bibliography |
Includes list of abbreviations, chapter notes (pages 227-314), bibliographical references (pages 315-331) , and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Delta Ministry.
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Delta Ministry fast |
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National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America gnd |
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Civil rights movements -- Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
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Civil rights -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- Mississippi
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Civil Rights.
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African Americans -- Civil rights
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Civil rights movements
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Civil rights -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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Race relations
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Bürgerrechtsbewegung
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Christentum
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Ethnische Beziehungen
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Mississippi -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century
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Mississippi
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Staat Mississippi
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| Genre/Form |
History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780820340203 |
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0820340200 |
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0820325260 |
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9780820325262 |
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1283031329 |
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9781283031325 |
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9786613031327 |
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6613031321 |
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